You Too Can Be A Research Scientist

Just learn to suspend all normative judgement. Lobotomies may be required.

The impacts of global warming discussed at the meeting sounded like a roll call of disasters. Topics ranged from the collapse of ice sheets in Antarctica to the irreversible melting of the Greenland ice caps; from droughts in Africa to floods in Japan. And fears were also raised over the rapidly changing current-patterns in acidifying ocean .

But the scientists shied away from stating that such climate change was "dangerous". "That's a value judgement to be made by policy makers," said Bert Metz, from the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and one of the report's authors. [emphases added]

Okay: Pastureland in Greenland and Antarctica? Check. Droughts in Africa (where there's never ever been starvation, right?) Check. Changes in the currents and chemistry of the oceans, the Earth's single most important climatological variable? Check. IF THIS ISN'T DANGEROUS, THEN WHAT THE HELL IS?